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Vermont’s New Eugenics Movement

Posted in Choice Becomes "Duty" to Die, Classism and Assisted Suicide, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Selfishness of Proponents, Slippery Slope, Vermont on March 14, 2015 | Comments Off

Many Vermonters would be stunned to learn that some eighty years ago, our legislature passed a law enabling the sterilization of Vermonters who had been determined to be “undesirables,” people from targeted groups that included Abenakis and French Canadian immigrants. The 1931 sterilization law was designed to reduce the number of people seen as placing […]

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Privilege vs. Disability in the Assisted Suicide Debate

Posted in Agism, Classism and Assisted Suicide, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Disability Rights Groups' Opposition, Other states, Uncategorized on January 27, 2015 | Comments Off

Several years ago, Patient Choices, the group that, with lots of money from Compassion and Choices and the support of Governor Peter Shumlin, later succeeded in getting assisted suicide made legal in Vermont, brought George Eighmey, veteran C&C activist and “support volunteer” at the bedsides of people committing assisted suicide, , to speak in Manchester, […]

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The Double Standard of Assisted Suicide

Posted in Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Two Sides of the Same Coin, Other Countries on July 8, 2014 | Comments Off

This blogpost from Paul Russell addresses Australia’s most recent euthanasia-related controversy: http://blog.noeuthanasia.org.au/2014/07/at-last-we-wake-up-to-dr-death.html Russell states that tolerance of any suicide sends a very mixed message such that, “Suicide should be prevented, except, perhaps, you know, when you’re really ill or dying; or maybe when you’re very old; or maybe when disability makes your life really difficult. […]

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Stephen Mendelsohn Nails the Difference between Proponents and Opponents: “We” vs. “Me, Myself, and I”

Posted in Connecticut, Legislative Efforts in Other States, Selfishness of Proponents on March 21, 2014 | Comments Off

The first link is to a video of Stephen Mendelsohn’s fantastic speech at the Second Thought news conference in Connecticut this week.  The second is to a transcript of the same remarks at the press conference, which he writes were substantially the same as his testimony in the legislature. Stephen Mendelsohn Nails the Difference between […]

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Why Connecticut Should Not Legalize Assisted Suicide and Why Vermont Should Repeal Its Law

Posted in Connecticut, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Elder Abuse, Other states on February 22, 2014 | Comments Off

Thanks to Leslie Wolfgang for an excellent op-ed piece in today’s Hartford Courant.  The reasons why CT should not legalize assisted suicide are the same reasons why Vermont should repeal its assisted suicide law.  This cannot be done until the next biennium, which begins in 2015, after an election this fall.  Now is not too […]

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The Act is Suicide

Posted in Vermont on January 31, 2013 | Comments Off

On January 30, the Burlington Free Press Called on Vermonters to stop using euphemisms and call assisted suicide what it really is: suicide. Here’s a quote: “In some ways, the death with dignity legislation is an attempt to place a veneer of medical legitimacy on suicide to ease our conscience about something for which we […]

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Boston Globe Editorial Opposing Legalizaton of Assisted Suicide in Massachusetts: A yes vote would not serve the larger interests of the state.

Posted in Editorials, Other states on November 2, 2012 | Comments Off

Read this editorial online at http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2012/11/01/election-endorsement-question/qAAp21DlC6mkoGYPjA9J6M/story.html. Here it is: End-of-life discussions, care should come before Question 2 November 02, 2012 Massachusetts, like most of the United States, has been in a woeful state of denial about the way its medical system handles the end of life. Too often, doctors shy away from frank discussions with […]

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